Library linking (request)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> import "alleg40.dll";

There is a problem with this.

Unless the library (static or dynamic) uses some kind of known name 
mangling, D won't be able to deduce the function signatures.

For example, I know a lot of C-compatible libraries use C name mangling, 
which is just

name at 8

Or something, where 8 is the number of bytes passed into the function.  No 
indication of return type, param types, etc.

It could only really be done with D libraries, and by then, you might as 
well create your own D library format.  Which would still be cool.